I think it will be very easy to find a host that federated from them, making it easy to mitigate the damage.

Never trust a rant from a person that can’t install Windows.

Boomer AI wrote the title.

People who craft intentionally misleading titles with a qualifier at the end that diffuses the statement have been proven to be pedophiles, schwim says.

I disabled it on my phones. I’ve found it to be completely without value.

Had to look up what substack was. Not sure if that speaks more of it’s irrelevance, my ignorance or if it’s a 50/50 split.

I think the answer to that question would completely depend on what you value.

No, because I don’t live in a binary world where I have to pick one over the other.

I don’t think for myself, it’s primarily the fault of bots, misinformation and ads. It’s… Us. We’re not as interesting as we like to think we are and I have just gotten exhausted slogging through the “look what I can do” posts.

It’s much more rewarding for me to follow videos or threads of people actually creating something that interests me than it is to scroll through feeds consisting of online acquaintances posting memes, pics of purchases, food and locales.

My preferred medium is YouTube subs via freetube of channels whose content appeals to me(carpentry, car builds, mtb, etc). I don’t use any social aspects of the platform, I just like to watch the content.

Out of curiosity, how many years back are you remembering? I can imagine it happened to me when I was 20 but its not really a thing for me at 50.

This is why people can’t take desktop linux seriously.

That works in both directions. Don’t assume that the few that didn’t return are the ones that would have saved Reddit via incredible content.

If I had to watch an ad, deep fake or not, I’d just stop watching YT vids altogether.

This has been Tesla’s modus operandi since day one of Musk’s involvement and the bootlicking fanboys have helped blame the victims of the failures to keep legitimate claims from gaining ground in recalls.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502379/tesla-modely-roof-flies-off-convertible-quality-issue

You can still opt out by opting not to use Dropbox.

Say it isn’t so.

Anyways.

“It happens all the time” and “they always do *” is also comically unhelpful and useless. I’m getting a pot/kettle vibe from those that seem to take offense at my comment.

I also use FF solely and have no slowdowns on YT. I guess they like my copy of the browser.

I’m sorry but I don’t see how that check is browser-specific. Is that part happening on the browser side?

Nobody can even state that it’s actually happening “for competitive browsers” as even Chrome users are reporting an unexplained lag/slowdown. At this point, it’s just wild speculation and bandwagoning.